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Mary Shelley

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1. Who is convicted
of the murder of Victor’s younger brother, William?

(A) Alphonse Frankenstein

(B) Victor Frankenstein

(C) Justine Moritz

(D) Frankenstein’s monster

2. Who is accused
of the murder of Henry Clerval?

(A) Victor Frankenstein

(B) Robert Walton

(C) Frankenstein’s monster

(D) Justine Moritz

3. To whom is Victor
taken after Henry is murdered?

(A) M. Kempe

(B) His father

(C) Professor Waldman

(D) Mr. Kirwin

4. What is the name
of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods
of modern science?

(A) Krempe

(B) Clerval

(C) Waldman

(D) Beaufort

5. With what is Walton
obsessed?

(A) Creating life

(B) Reaching the North Pole

(C) Finding a passage to the East

(D) Discovering the source of the Earth’s magnetism

6. Where does Victor
first have a conversation with his monster?

(A) In Victor’s apartment in Ingolstadt

(B) In a field outside of Geneva

(C) On a desolate island off Scotland

(D) In a hut on a glacier near Montanvert

7. What does the
monster want Victor to do to heal his loneliness?

(A) Create a female monster to be his companion

(B) Accept him into his family

(C) Destroy him

(D) Work to make him appear less hideous

8. How does Walton
meet Victor?

(A) They work in the same laboratory on an island off Scotland.

(B) Walton escorts Victor northward in pursuit
of the monster.

(C) Walton finds Victor on the northern ice
and nurses him back to health.

(D) They are students together at Ingolstadt.

9. How does Victor’s
mother die?

(A) She drowns in a river.

(B) The monster strangles her.

(C) She catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth.

(D) She is executed for murdering William.

10. Who takes care
of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?

(A) Elizabeth

(B) Henry

(C) Alphonse

(D) M. Waldman

11. How does the
monster learn to speak?

(A) By listening to Felix teach Safie his
language

(B) By reading Victor’s journal of his creation of the monster

(C) By learning from Victor

(D) He doesn’t; he is born knowing how to speak.

12. To which character(s)
in Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself?

(A) Adam and Eve

(B) Satan

(C) Adam

(D) Adam and Satan

13. Why does Victor
accompany Henry Clerval on a voyage to England and Scotland?

(A) For entertainment

(B) To track down and destroy the monster

(C) To work on creating a female monster

(D) To study science

14. What does the
monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?

(A) The death of De Lacey’s wife

(B) The loss of Safie

(C) Poverty

(D) His own presence

15. Which of the
following is not one of the alchemists whom Victor studies in his
adolescence?

(A) Cornelius Agrippa

(B) Lucretius

(C) Albertus Magnus

(D) Paracelsus

16. What do Elizabeth
and Alphonse assume is the source of Victor’s unhappiness?

(A) Disappointment in his studies at Ingolstadt

(B) Guilt about creating a monster

(C) Grief over the death of Beaufort

(D) Lack of desire to marry Elizabeth

17. How does Victor
react to seeing Henry’s corpse?

(A) He has no reaction.

(B) He denies that he is the murderer.

(C) He cries.

(D) He falls into a long, feverish illness.

18. To whom does
Walton address his letters?

(A) Victor Frankenstein

(B) Margaret Saville

(C) Elizabeth Lavenza

(D) Justine Moritz

19. The Frankensteins’
family home is in

(A) Luxembourg

(B) Geneva

(C) Chamounix

(D) Ingolstadt

20. Victor Frankenstein
attends university in

(A) Ingolstadt

(B) Geneva

(C) Edinburgh

(D) Paris

21. Which of the
following books is not one of those read by the monster?

(A)
Paradise Lost

(B)
The Sorrows of Werter

(C) Plutarch’s Lives

(D)
The Inferno

22. Why are Felix,
Agatha, and De Lacey so poor?

(A) They were born poor.

(B) Safie’s father stripped them of their
fortune.

(C) The French court took their fortune and
exiled them from France for helping Safie’s father escape from prison.

(D) Felix spent the family’s money courting Safie.

23. What is the monster’s
reward for saving a girl from drowning?

(A) He is shot.

(B) He is given a meal and a room and place to stay.

(C) He is beaten and chased away.

(D) He is cursed and ignored.

24. Why doesn’t Victor
protect his wife, Elizabeth, from the monster’s attack on the night
of their wedding?

The book doesn't specify if the monster was created by one man or several or how he was brought to life. I think we can safely guess that the monster was brought to life using electricity because it has such an influence on Victor. SPOILER ALERT. I would also say that is safe to say that the monster was probably created using more than one man because later on Victor tears apart/destroys the monster's companion before he completes her creation. These are just my thoughts and if anyone has anything else they would like to add please comment